Adjunct Islands in English - Theoretical Perspectives and Experimental Evidence

Island phenomena are a central topic in generative grammar, especially because of principled exceptions to these general extraction constraints. This volume investigates exceptional extractions from phrasal adjunct islands. It argues, based on experimental studies, that several factors identified in the previous literature are uninformative about locality conditions because they show effects in both extraction and non-extraction sentence forms. The volume develops a multifactorial model to account for these effects without appealing to universal extraction conditions and argues that the relative acceptability of the underlying proposition determines acceptability across sentence types.

Product details

• Authors: Andreas Kehl
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2025
• EAN: 9783112215173
• ISBN: 978-3-11-221517-3
• No. of pages: 330
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 21 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 515 g
• Illustrations: 21 b/w ill., 24 b/w tbl.
• Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Englisch, Linguistics, LAN009060 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, FOR000000 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, FOR035000 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Creole Languages, Lexical Semantics, Locality Theory, Island Constraints, Experimental Syntax